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Mona Lisa; Why Is This Woman Smiling?
She is the most famous and most reproduced portrait ever painted, by the man, Leonardo da Vinci, who is widely considered the ” most diversely talented person” who ever lived. Leonardo’s genius...
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“Let Loose the Horses, and Watch Them Run…” ; The Horse Throughout the...
Man has been making representations of horses since before he acquired written language. The horse images from the caves at Chauvet are ca, 30,000 years old, and those at Lascaux are ca. 16,000 years...
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Richard Diebenkorn and the Magic of California Abstraction.
There have certainly been painters, and I think first, of Cezanne and Monet, whose work so intensely and specifically explores and expresses a particular place in all its physical attributes. But I...
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California’s Golden Landscape; Plein-Air Painting & California Impressionism
From the turn of the 19th century until the Great Depression of 1929, a number of artists produced a large body of gorgeous paintings apotheosizing the California coastline, foothills and mountains....
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Last Flight of the Space Shuttle
Today, the Space Shuttle Discovery, flew from The Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to its new home in Washington D.C., at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. With the end of the shuttle...
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Some of My Favorite Sculptures
I wanted to share some of my favorite sculptures. They are of differing styles, some ancient, some classical, some modern. Left is Michelangelo’s “Awakening Slave,” and above, his representation...
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Flash Post; Literary and Cultural Icon Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes, the great novelist, political commentator, and cultural icon, died today in Mexico City at the age of 83. He was an integral part of the great blooming of Latin America literature that...
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The Single-Minded Focus of Giorgio Morandi
I can think of no painter in the history of art who has so limited his subject matter and dove so deeply into one pond, as Giorgio Morandi did. Although he did paint some landscapes, and a few self...
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Nero Redux
Recent events compel me to stretch my purview beyond my normal commentary on art and culture. I feel as if our whole society is living inside this depiction of ”Nero fiddling, while Rome burned.”...
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Birthday
This great translator of raw emotion into pictorial brilliance was born on March 30, 1853. He died at age 37, but left a legacy of profoundly moving art that is indelibly seared into the hearts and...
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SHOOT THE SUN DOWN
SHOOT THE SUN DOWN is a film I wrote, produced and directed in 1976. It starred Christopher Walken and Margot Kidder right before their career making roles in DEER HUNTER and...
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